Pop star Bressie has revealed he is desperate to start having children and admitted he wants to have them next year.

The Voice judge and top model Rozanna Purcell, 22, have been secretly dating since October – even meeting each others' families.

Now the former Blizzards star has revealed he yearns for kids in his life as the “horrible age” of 33 looms.

Bressie said: “Personally, I’m like anyone else, I want to have kids.

“I adore children, I won’t lie. I have a nephew, and I’ll spend three or four hours just doing nothing with him.

“And I just think it’s definitely something for me. I’d love to be a father, like everyone else.

“The thing is, people also assume because you do something on television or music that you don’t want to have a family.

“But you are just like everybody else – you want to have a family, you want to have someone you love, you want to live in a nice house, you want to have kids.”

And Bressie also warned his fans that he could be planning on quitting performing next year, as part of a huge life change.

He added: “I think with me, I’m a million miles away from what I essentially want to achieve, in music anyway.

“I’m still not 100% sure what I want from music – is it the production, songwriting team that I work with? Is it performing? I really just don’t know yet.”

Speaking on RTE Radio 1, Bressie also revealed he decided to get into triathlons following a dare – which him and Roz have both been doing – to help his mental health problems.

The TV favourite suffered from panic attacks when on The Voice, and broke his own arm as a 16-year-old in a bid to get treatment for his anxiety issues as a teen.

But Bressie revealed that learning how to swim and tackling his fear of water this year was the only thing that helped him.

He added: “I actually can’t swim. I have a severe, innate fear of water.

“I don’t like water, I don’t like being in it, never mind the pool, open water scares the crap out of me.

“And I said, ‘I can’t do a triathlon, because I can’t swim’. There’s no point picking a challenge then, they said – you know you can run and cycle, so pick something you can’t do.

“So at age 32, I decided to start swimming.

“I got into the pool – and I’ve been quite vocal about my mental health and trying to beat it, and nothing really worked – and the biggest thing missing from my life was a challenge.

“With music and TV you don’t control them, you don’t control whether people are going to receive you well or people are going to like what you do, or they’re going to perceive you the way you want it to be.

“But with triathlons you do control it. You control how hard you train. And with the rugby world, and the gaelic world, I missed that.

“So I decided if I picked a challenge, and something that was out of my comfort zone, I could actually focus my head.